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selected from the rest, taken up, and soaked for t\\'o or three hours in 

 a strong infusion of tobacco water, and then replanted in a fresh soil 

 or compost, and removed to a situation at a distance from the for- 

 mer. But if the whole bed or border be overrun with this insect, it 

 is best to take up all the plants, and, having soaked them, to plant 

 them elsewhere. The bed or border should then be trenched up, 

 and remain fallow to the next season, or be planted with another 

 crop not liable to this calamity. 



In their after-management, they are said to " blow at the same 

 time, and require nearly the same treatment as Auriculas, both with 

 respect to soil and situation; they are however more impatient of 

 heat and drought, and more partial to shade and moisture. They 

 may be set in the same sized pots, and in the same compost as the 

 Auricula, only with the addition of more loam; or they may be 

 planted on cool shady beds or borders, being very hardy, and seldom 

 perishing in the coldest and wettest seasons, because their parent is 

 a native of this country; but during the heats of summer they are 

 frequently destroyed, unless proper precautions be taken. This dis- 

 like of heat seems to indicate," it is added, " that the Polyanthus is 

 father the offspring of the Primrose, which requires shade, than of 

 the Cowslip, which grows in open pastures; though Mr. Miller seems 

 to regard it as a variety of the latter." 



The roots of the wild plants, when they can be procured, may 

 .be taken up, divided, and planted out in the autumn, when they 

 will flower in the following spring. 



The fourth sort readily seeds in its wild state, and also frequently 

 when cultivated: but it is scarcely worth the pains to raise it from 

 seed, since a strong root may be divided so as to form many plants; 

 the best time for doing this is in the spring, soon after the leaves are 

 expanded. Each off-set should be placed in a separate pot, filled 

 with two parts of stiffish loam, and one part of light sandy bog earth, 

 watering and setting them in the shade, under a north wall or 

 paling, but not under trees, keeping them there during summer in 

 pans of water, but in the autumn, as the wet season comes on, taking 

 them out of the pans, and either laying the pots on their sides, or 



